Wow – That Was Hot
We had a great morning taking off the snow from last night. There was a bit of ice under the two inches of the beautiful, clean stuff. Nevertheless, the job was finished, and with temps in the high twenties, the bare concrete is showing in many spots.
There was a bag of Bear Creek Chili mix in the pantry and that sounded like just the ticket for supper. I always add extra ingredients: browned ground beef, onions, garlic and black beans. As I was stirring in the can of black beans, the label jumped out at me “Black Chili Beans” and they were processed in Chili sauce. Oh my gosh. The mix already had quite a bit of spices and I have always felt it was spicy enough. After everything had simmered a bit, I took a spoon and did a taste test . . . my lips were burning before I got the spoonful of chili swallowed. This did not bode well. My first thought was that there was no way I could throw out all these ingredients what with ground beef being so expensive.
I hit Google and why was I not surprised that there was a solution? By adding table sugar a bit at a time it toned down the hot spice taste. My supper and lips were saved.